Posted by W_B on January 18, 2018 at 10:52:26 from (155.188.183.17):
In Reply to: tractor sales posted by Michael V (NM) on January 16, 2018 at 14:46:24:
Have to agree with most posting on this topic: no interest among most younger folks, high debt loads (house, car, student loans), no connection to the farm, high cost of restoration materials, etc. A factor not mentioned is with the on-going rural recession I just don't see people moving to the country like they used to. Perhaps high land and building costs keep them in the city. When we first got some llamas lots of folks were moving out my way and wanted a few to keep the pastures down and something for the kids to do. Those folks are older and lost interest and the kids are grown and gone. The tractor of choice then was an 8 or 9N Ford. Now all you see are Case/IH, Kubota and New Holland. But few new mini-farms around. We are only an hour drive to downtown Columbus so it's not like we are far removed from access to the city jobs.
Good news if you are interested in an old model since prices are better for something you might want. We are winding ourselves down into retirement and want to reduce our llama herd size so less maintenance around the place and more free time. No interest in more work with old tractors than what we have. I have either the 8N or 9N attached to the manure spreader all the time so I don't need anything except a tractor that runs and moves with a draw bar and a PTO, so there is no reason to have anything beyond the Ns for that. With a smaller herd that will be less manure and less to haul.
I bought a new little Mahindra a few years ago with a loader, hydrostatic transmission and live hydraulics and PTO that does way more than for me than the Ns do or any other antique tractor out there could do. So I guess I'm part of the "problem".
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